The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1875, Page 6

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From our reports this morning the probabilities | are that the weather to-day will be warmer and partly cloudy. Sanceeeenincepmnemeeypemememcemit | Persons gong out of town for the summer can | have the daily and Sunday Hxrraty mailed to | them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Wart Srarer Yxrsrerpax.—The stock market exhibited a disposition toward realiz- | ing sales and prices went off. Gold declined | to 113}. Foreign exchange was weaker. Bngapsrvres are advancing in Europe, and | the prospects for a brisk grain trade with this | country grow more promising each day. Now tue Axronsists are said to be re- | treating before the Carlists, and the republi- | cans are reported preparing for arising. It | is the old tale of toe King of France, who | with his forty thousand men imarched up the | biM and then marched down again. Tue Reront in « Spanish journal that Gen- eral Dorregaray is wounded and has retreated | into France is contradicted by the tenor of | other despate heuld it prove to be true, | however, it w give cecasion for a very , pretty complication with MacMahon’s govern- { ment. | Reuctious L does not ap- pear to be one of the practical blessings of Alfonso’s notwithstanding the rejection | 'n the Constiutional Comm of an amend- ment to the new constitution in opposition to ft. It will be a long time before Spain can | learn to conform to the ideas of modern civili- cation. | Tae Boarp or Hrarrn is giving out con- | tracts for filling in the Harlem flats, but the summer will be over before anything ot valne . can be accomplished, The way the authori- ties have dealt with this danger is disgraceful, | and it is only an overruling Providence which | tas saved the city so far from a feariul epidemic. | } | | Restirvrion anp Recovery.—It is pleasant to read that in South Carolina the State has recovered seventy-five thousand dollars in the sourts from a public official who robbed the treasury of thatamount. ‘he case had been pending for a year. The suits against the Tammany plunderere are of much older date, wd nothing has yet been recovered. Not | wen Garvey, Ingersoll, Keyser or Norton has | men made to disgorze, and the massive suits | against Tweed and the other leading offenders drag slowly along. But the result in South Carolina gives us new hope. New York may | recover somacthing at last, alter all her heavy and heretofore profitless expenditures in pros- | ecuting her suits. A Goop Examere rrom Cupa.—As a general rule we should not be disposed to look to Cuba for examples of public polity deserving | imitation. Bowbast, prutality, insolence and | cowardice are uot ingredients from which any desirable compound can be reasonably ex- pected. Nevertheless, when we hear of the arrest of gold speculators and the inearcera~ tion in Fort Cabafias of a banker charged | with running up the price of the precious metal, wo must admit » yearning for a taste of Cuban justice administered by a red-handed Valmaseda in the city of New York. If the imprisonment of the Havana gold speculating Zorilla could be followed by the arrest of a few of the gold speculating gorillas of Wall street the lesson would be one from which Groat public benefits might result | from NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET, The Indian Question. We print another letter this morning from the Indian country, giving the results of fur- ‘ther investigations of the management of the Sioux tribes. As our readers will remember, the Herarp some time since sent a special correspondent into the Northwest with in- structions to hire his own interpreters, keep away from the infiuertes of the Indian store- keepers and agents and find oat from per- sonal observation and from conversations with the Indians themselves what is the real trouble with the administration of Indian affairs. This mission was performed, not without much expense to the Hexarp and considerable danger to our correspondent. He was going among lawless men, whose lives were devoted to avarice and injustice, and who, ( protect themselves in their monopoly, would be only too glad to do violence to any independent correspondent who proposed to interfere with their schemes. He was also to goamong the Indians and trast himself to their ignorance and passion, which at any moment might flame into war. No more thankless and, in some respects, no more arduous errand was ever assigned to a corre- spondent, and the manner in which tae work has been done will receive commendations vho wish to see an odious stain re- moved from our national honor. What the discoveries of our correspondent prove is this. The whole Indian system of | the Northwest is as corrupt as was Tammany | Hall under the old Ring, It is even more disgrace‘ul in its corruption. The Tammany Ring grew rich by rubbing the city treasury. ‘The Indian Ring grows rich not merely by robbing the national Treasury but by plon- dering poor, helpless Indians. The discover- ies of our “correspondent are confirmed by. Professor Marsh, of New Haven, who sends us an interesting and valuable letter ad- dressed to the President. Professor Marsh | found himself in the Sioux country on an errand of scientific investigation. During the journey he met Red Cloud, the great ehief of the Sioux, who revealed to him the manner in which he and his people lad been treated. Protessor Marsh was so much interested in these statements that he made special inqui- ries as to their truth, He found that there had been manifest and outrageous frauds in the whole Indian management. Ue reported that the agent was totally unfit for his place and guilty of frauds upon the tribes. The manner in which these fraads became possible was explained. The agents reported that they had many more Indians at a post tuan were in existence, and exacted pay from the govern- ment for the fraudulent number. The food and clothing distributed to them were very inferior. The pork was unfit for human food. The flour, sugar and coffee were worthless, the tobacco roiten. In consequence of the fraud and miemanagement the Indians actu- ally suffered for want of food and apparel. More than this, as our correspondent shows with a minuteness and precision that cannot be controverted, the whole business of Indian management in the Northwest is simply a frand upon the government and its wards. Orville L, Grant, the brother of the Pres- | ident, who has been a floating member of our happy and domestic administration, goes into the Indian country to make his fortune. He becomes a partner in an Indian trading store and brings with him the whole power of the administration, the power to threaten and com- mand, to sell goods at his own prices to the Indians and to shut up rival storekeepers who attempt in exact compliance with the laws to undersell him or in any way to interfere with his monopoly. The story of Orville L. Grant's connection with the Indian trading stores is in all respects discreditable, Wedo not mean by this to deny to Mr. Grant or to any private | citizen the right to buy and sell in the Indian or any other country. This would be a hardship. We have no evidence that Mr. Grant is personally involved in any of tho frauds upon the government or the Indian | tribes. Professor Marsh makes no such charge, nor do we understand our corre- spondent as doing so. But, as he pithily presents it, from the time that Orville L. Grant made his appearance in the Indian country as a trader the Indians began to starve. In other words, the#system of which the President’s brother is a part and in which he now amasses large gains is a vicious one. | It depends for profit upon an unjust monopoly, a monopoly sustained by the whole power of the government, which permits the Indian | trader to sell his goods at his own exorbitant | price to the tribes. This is the monopoly which underlies the infamies of the Indian Ring. Because of this we havo one of the most powertul combinations that ever succeeded in defrauding the government and persecuting helpless, ignorant savages. Because of this our whole Indian system has become a dishonor to our government and our civilization, Because of this we are threatened every spring and summer with In- dian wars, which become wars in earnest at times, Jeading to cruel massacres, bloody bat- tles and a great waste of public money. The whole Indian question, its misery and its shame, turns upon the creation of such a sys- tem as we have in the Sioux country under the patronage of the President’s own brother. So, following this line of evidence, so sug- gestive and at the same time so painful, we find the Iuterior Department and the Indian Office ut the mercy of a ring.which numbers Mr. Orville Grant among its members. The only reform that we can have is the removal of Mr. Delano and Mr. Smith and the withdrawal of | Mr. Grant from a position which, howover | advantageous it may be to himself, is a scan- dal to good government and a dishonor to his illustrious brother. If Mr. Grant had a due respect for his brother’s name and office he would not tarnish thom by this public as- sociation with a ring whose operations are | now the crowning disgrace of the administra- tion, The country will say, and not without cause, that any failure on the part of the President to summarily stamp out these frauds will show that he cares more for the pecuniary advantage of his brother than the honor |of the nation. It is impossible for such a state of things to be as are described by our correspondent without the knowledge or collusion of the Indian Department, Even if there were no direct relation between Mr, Delano and the Indian agents, the fact that he should permit this system to grow up and only como to bis knowledge through the public press and “the testimony of a private sion too grave to be overlooked in t citizen like Professor Mursh is a sin of omis- | officer of the government. It is not among the vices of General Grant to run away from a contest, When he began his administration ho proclaimed almost with ostentation his resolye to settle the Indian question, His plans to that end were wise and humane. But he failed. All bis benevolent purposes, his Quaker and Methodist appointments, wore destroyed by the Ring. The Ring was too poweriul to be overcome by any ecclesiastical influences. The men who went among the Indians for the love of God were driven out by the men who went for the love of Mammon. The policy of the President, which began with so many high anticipations and which was in the hands of men as worthy as William Yelsh and George H. Stuart, is now repre sented by Orville Grant, selling beads and trinkets at an immense profit to starving Indian squaws. A commission is now in session in this city to investigate these facts—a commission se- lected by General Fisk, the President of the Board ot Indian Commissioners. We cannot say that the members of this board inspire us with a startling degree of confidence ; but we shall wait until we see the result of its labors. It is not pleasant to find its deliberations secret, The sunshine would do no harm in such an investigation. Mr. Delano and Mr. Smith are not-the men to seck darkness. The charges against them have been made pub- | licly, and there should be a public refutation. The report of this commission, made under | such auspices, would have no effect upon the public. What we see is a condition of affairs in the Indian country of the most disgraceful character. We see the best wishes of the peo- ple frustrated so far as elevating tho Indian is concerned. We see a class of agents and traders, who are granted certain monopolies by the government, and who grow rich out of this unjust franchise while the tribes aro starving. Prominent among these traders we find the President's own brother. No com- | mission can explain that away. No commis- sion can muke us feel that an admmistration which permits such a state of affairs is hon- estly dealing with the question. The Presi- dent should appoint two of the best men in the country to the Interior and Indian depart- ments. _He should find men like Bristow or Jewell. He should recall Orville Grant ‘and assign him to other employment than dealing with Indian squaws. He should stamp out the whole business of corruption. In doing this he would redeem himself from the odium that surrounds him, an odium which arises more than anything else from the heedless avarice of one who bears his name. Steinberger’s Samoan Farce, Since Lemuel Gulliver's adventures among the Liliputians nothing so remarkablo has happened as the visit of Colonel Steinberger to the Samoans. The expedition of that func- tionary, its objects and purposes are among the things whose meaning Dundreary has taught us no fellow can find out. In reading | the account which we print this morning the sober American citizen wili be at a loss to de- termine whether those who projected it are only frivoloug or absolutely mad. That Presi- dent Graat should lend the credit of the United States to such an undertaking is sim- | ply astounding. The puerility of the whole | transaction, from its inception to its execu- | tion, exceeds the Lounds of human credulity. | | Every tradition of the Republic is wantonly | outraged for the sake of a little silly | by-play in the presence of a mob of naked savages. The American President in secret and without the consent either of Congress or the country sends off an adventurer in a ves- | sel belonging to the American navy to make | one breech-clout king of the breech-clouts, An American officer trails the flag of his country | in the dirty water of Pango-Pango and offi- | cially assists in these degrading performances, | What Commander Erben was thinking about | we need not'inquire when we remember that | the whole undertaking was conceived in mad- | ness and folly. His address to the people of | Samoa is at once so childish and so astound- | ing that we cannot conceive how any intelli- | gent gentleman was capable of making it. As | to the address of Colonel Steinberger, which \followed it, it is proof that at last | Pecksniff has excceded himself, Such grand ! talk toa herd of unclothed islanders in the | Pacific seas isacontribution to literature | which must make the real Steinberger more | famous and more ofa hero than the imaginary | Rolla. “Samoa should not live naked and | disunited,” says this new Apostle of national | unity, and s0 he goes to them to clothe and | unite them. Our correspondent informs us that he could have a “kingly crown” if he | only wanted it. It is another proof of Stein- | borger’s greatness that he docs not want it | even at the hands of the naked Christians of | Samoa. He may take it and welcome, so far | as we are concerned, but the American people ‘annot look with favor upon the silly farce he | has led the country into playing before the eyes of all the world. Accipent To Femen.—A sad accident oc- | curred yesterday at Cincinnati, which may cost the lives of several devoted men. Whil» at- tempting to check the progress of a fireanum- ber of the Cincinnati Fire Brigade were sud- denly buried in the ruins of a burning building. With the courage and promptness | which so honorably distinguish our firemen, | their comrades worked to save the unfortu- nates, and were rewarded by rescuing the in- | jured men, among these their chief, Megrue, who had been buried under the falling walls, but escaped with serious, but not necessarily fatal, injuries. It is feared that some of the | men cannot survive, and it is only by a mira- cle that any one was taken out alive. | Tur Orpen for the bill of particulars in the | Tweed case has been entered in the Supreme Court, and it will be seen the answer will necessarily embrace a specific slatement of every fact and item at issue, Every inch of ground is to be contested, and we shall not be surprised if the time cousumed in the trial, if the caso ever reaches ao trial, equals the duration of the Beecher case. Tue Examination or Porscu Caprartys yes- terday revealed vothing that will be of much yaluo to our lawmakers. For men who have charge of the police interests of the city these officers, according to their own showing, havo learned little of the ways of criminals. Most of them know less than the ordinary ob- server, They are so innocent that they should be removed for not knowing more of the ways of the (ranagremor, The Liberal Republicans. Tho meeting of the Liberal Republican State Committee at Saratoga to-day to fix time and place for holding a State Convention is an event of more significance than can be meastired by the part the liberals havo played in the recent politics of the State. The meeting to-day has larger relations than those which connect with the approaching State canvass, It is the first step in a widely concerted and carefully planned movement for restoring the broken unity of the repub- lican party and@ receiving the liberals who went off in the Greeley campaign back into full communion. Such a renewal of old ties has been industriously engineered by some of the most experienced of the republican leaders, with Vice President Wilson at their head. Ex-Speaker Blaine is also in tho movement, which is the incentive to the fierce assault made upon him by the Grant organ at Washington. Ex-Senator Morgan, of this State, is exerting his influence in the same direction, and the movement is actively favored by prominent republicans and liberal republicans in the West, especially in Ohio, of which a remarkable proot will appear in tho course of this article. The action contemplated by the liberal re- publicans of New York at Saratoga has been agreed upon after friendly consultations with ex-Senator Morgan and other regular republi- cans of recognized skill in political manipula- tion. The programme for the initiatory move- ment in this State is for the liberals to hold a State Convention and nominate a ticket of such conspicuous excellence that tho regular republican State Convention can adopt a part or tho whole of it and ro- inforce the. party by a cordial return of the estranged liberals. It is proposed that the liberals nominate Frederick W. Seward for Secretary of State, Calvin T. Hurlburd for Comptroller and William M. Evarts for At- torney General—all excellent names, which the regular republicans can have no hesitation in indorsing if they are willing to compose the old differences and consolidate the party, We have not learned whether ex-Senator Fenton isa party to this arrangement, but so dexter- ous a politician, who has nothing to expect from the democratic party, cannot be averse toit. If the republicans carry Ohio in Oc- tober, of which they have sanguine hopes, they will not despair of success in New York with such a ticket and such a restoration of republican unity as is to be inaugurated by the liberals with the full support of the lead- ers, who share the views of Vice President Wilson. Tho liberal republicans of New York have nothing to hope from the democratic party of the State since its great victory of last year, which has given it an overweening confidence in its independent strength. Lieutenant Gov- ernor Dorsheimer no longer considers himself aa a liberal but as a democrat, and it is quite certain that the next democratic State Con- vention will not court the liberals by again giving one of their number a place on its ticket. ho liberals fully understand this feature of the situation, and have accordingly selected no democratic name for their pro- | posed ticket. Mr, Seward and Mr. Hurlburd are consistent republicans as well as excellent candidates, and, although Mr, Evarts on one occasion sharply criticised the administration, he has always been classed as a republican, and, like Messrs. Seward and Hurlburd, has never acted with the liberals, The ticket which is to be seemingly dictated by the lib- erals comprises none of their own men, and has been arranged with ex-Senator Morgan and other regular republicans with a view to its adoption by the party, The success of this movement is expected by its duthors to depend very much on the result of the canvass in Ohio. If that State is recovered by the republicans the party will | cherish confident hopes. A step has been taken in Ohio which will insure a republican triumph if its authors accomplish their pre- liminary aim. It is their purpose to bring Carl Schurz home and put him on the stump in Ohio against the inflation platform of the democrats. ‘The ocean cable has been put in requisition to induce him to shorten his visit, on the well founded expectation that his elo- quence will turn the whole German vote in Ohio against the democrats. The Germans of the West do not take kindly to the rag money delusion, and their pride in Mr. Schurz and their admiration of his abilities will lead them to give a ready hearing to his speeches in favor of a sound currency. He was one of the stanchest and ablest of tho hard money champions in tho debates of last year, and he could support the republican side in Obio without any violation of consistency or _ self-respect. He would not only insure the support of the whole body of German voters, but would bring back into the republican ranks the ten thousand liberals who voted for Collins two years ago, when Governor Allen’s majority was only eight hundred and seventeen. Mr. Schurz’s participation in the canvass would redeem Ohio from the democrats by a splen- did ond triumphant majority and put a drenching wet blanket on the democratic party in other States. But will he come? Nobody knows until his answer is received, but if the republican party at large accepts the healing policy of Vice President Wilson there is no public reason why Mr. Schurz should decline the invitation which has been sent him. He professes to be as much @ re- publican as he ever was. All the liberals who went into the Greeley canvass were impelled by personal dislike of Grant. They con- tantly asserted that thoy etood fast by their republican principles. Thoro is no way by which Schurz could go back to the party with so much credit to himself as by tek- ing the stump in Ohio against infla- tion. This powerful contribution to a great republican victory wouid fully reinstate him in the party and give hima political future which he cannot expect in his present isola- tion, By thus assisting to reunite the party ho would become one of its foremost leaders and establish a claim to its highest honors, apart from the Presidency from which his foreign birth excludes him. We judge it probable that he will yield to the reprosenta- tions that have been made to him and accept an invitation which reopens a public carcer for which his talents so eminently fit him. The reconsolidation of the republican party for which some of its most distinguished leaders are laboring with zeal and assiduity, the chances of ai easy republican victory in clouds rising in the political horizon which must soon create anxiety and alarm in the democratio party, The Herald of To-Day. Activity in news gathering, which is the great and important feature of modern jour- nalism, is rarely betier illustrated than in fhe Henatp this morning, This day's issue is a complete epitome of the world’s doings up to the latest dates. Every event of interest both at home and abroad not previously known is herewith reported with scrupulous accuracy, and it may truly be said the anti- podes meot in our columns to be carried again from clime to clime until the ends of the earth are reached again. From the Sa- moan Islands: we have the remarkable story of the establishment of Steinberger's monarchy; Australia sends its batch of news; Fiji its story of the relapso of the natives into heathenism; the Sandwich Islands their messages of kindness toward America on the part of the people, and the details of a disaster to an American ship, in which even the King assisted in quenching the flames. The cable brings us to-day the European story of yesterday, and from every part of the world we have something new to communicate, All this varicty, which goes to make up the interest of the Huraup of to- day, is but a repetition of what the Henazp is every day. Wherever any event of impor- tance is happening our news gatherers may be found, and they not only tell the story. of tho event itself, but tell it in a way to make it as intelligible as if it happened at our very doors. In proof of this we have only to refer to our cable dia- grams of the shooting at Dollymount and Wimbledon. Every shot fired by the Irish and American teams in the international match and the shots in the match of the Lords and Commons were so reported that a glance showed the position of all upon the targets. All this goes to show the progress journalism is constantly making. It is amar- vel that so much news should be collected from all parts of the world and printed in a single day; but the methods adopted for its collection and publication are not less mar- vellous than the variety of the news itself, The wonder does not cease even here. Equally ingenious are the methods for the distribution of the paper after it is printed, in proof of which we bave only to cite tho work done by our Niagara and Saratoga trains. Activity in gathering and printing the news, and celerity in the distribution of the nows- paper are the keynotes of modern journalism, and in both these respects the Hzranp holds the first placo among the journals of the world, The Progress of Rapid Transit. At the session of the Rapid Transit Com- mission yesterday some time was consumed ino discussion of the powers and duties of the Commissioners under the law, and a prop- osition was made to employ counsel to inter- pretthe act, Such discussions are unnocos- sary and unfortunate. The Commissioners are men of good sense and business capacity, and are fully competent to understand the plain meaning of a statute. There can at least be no necessity for a premature raising ot legal quibbles, especially by the Commi: sioners thomsclves, The work they have | undertaken to accomplish is of such vast im- | portance to the public interests and go carn- estly desired by the people that it weuld be difficult for the enemies of rapid transit to throw serious obstructions in its way. The first duty of the Commission is to decide upon | the route the road is to follow. The argu- | ments in favor of the Third avenue line, from | tlio Battery or the City Hall to Harlom | Bridge, are so conclusive that there can | scarcely be a difference of opinion among the Commissioners on that point. Indeed, the enormous profits of the travel on that route have supplied the Third Avenue Railroad Company with the means of defeating rapid transit year after year while the subject was within the control of a venal Legislature. Their wealth and influence will, of course, be | powerless with the Commission; and the vigor with which they have opposed the great public improvement will only serve to prove the ad- vantages of their route over all others, only surprising that the decision of the Com- mission as to the route to be pursued has not already been announced. The question as to the plan of construction will, of course, require more time and con- sideration to determine. It is evident thet the Commiesion is to be flooded with applica- tions and projects, but so many of them will | be found at once to be impracticable that an examination by practical engineers will be likely to clear number. Every project deserves and should receive proper consideration. It would not be just or expedient to pay attention only to a few plans that happen to have already received competent indorsement, for the most desira- ble scheme may be one neyer before made public, Reasonable cheapnoss of construc- tion as woll as practicabilily must enter into | the final determination of the Commission if we are to have such arapid transit road as the public interests demand. Tho iron elevated principle is no longer an experiment. Its sue- cess is established. which project is practicable and can be car- ried out at such a cost as will enable the road to be run at five‘and six cent fares, Let these two points of route and plan of construction be settled in a manuer to commend the decis- ion to public confidence and we shall not bo long without rapid transit, If the Commis- sioners do this part of their work honostly and intelligently there will Le no occasion to borrow trouble about legal interpretations of their power under the law, Tae Postic Heaura.—While the repub- lican Aldermen arestubbornly obstructing the abatement of the Harlem flats nuisance the bills of mortality aro swelling to alarming proportions, The death roll mounts up steadily, from 568 three wecks ago to 743 the | following weck and to 890 iast week, Not- withstanding the coolness of the weather, which probably alone saves us from a pesti- | lence, the deaths from diseases attributable to miasmatic influences increase in number. The deadly vapors of Disbecker’s pest hole and the neglected filthy condition of the | streets generally continue to feed the harvest. Meanwhile the Aldermanic cabal votes steadily against any protection to the public health, in order to prevent the employment of city ‘bio which will stay “the tidal wave,” are | laborers by the democratic city government, It is | away a vast | The only question is, | If in the dangerous months of August and September the Harlem plague spot should do yet more deadly work tha obstructive Alder- men would find themselves in a very unen- viable position, ‘é Robert Dale Owen. There seems to be a peculiar sonsitiveness in Mr. Owen's family cn tho subject of tho Katie King chicanery, and an apprebension lest the public shall finally come to the con- clusion that his msanity is due to the chagrin and wounded vanity that may naturally have resulted from that event. Mr. Owen's som has been heard from on the subject, and now Rosamond Dale Owen, his daughter, writes to tho same effect and gives in some {ulness the cireumstances attending “the lapse from rea- son, as viewed in the domestic circle, This lady has made up her mind as to the cause of the failure of her father’s brain to perform its ordinary functions in the usual way; and it is to be observed, especially, that she describes as the cause of the malady those facts which were only its early symptoms. Post hoe propler hoe is the common error that intelli- gent people share with other people when they discuss topics that are within the range ot medical science. Whatever follows in tho relation of time is assumed to follow in other relations also; and the fact that immediately succeeds to another fact is accepted as its effect, and the word consequence is an evidence of the commonness of this error. Miss Owen contemplates as the causo of the malady “an overworked brain,’’ and of course there is an overworked brain in the case, for the crippled organ is overworked by trivial labor; but the lady, though accurate, therefore, so faz as she secs, does not seo far, aud isin error in regarding the mental ac- tivity to which sho refers as a cause-—using the word “cause” in any satisfactory sense. Mr. Owen’s departure from the common path of mental health is of old date. It began at least as early as tho tirae when ho was first noted as an “original thinker;’’ for his origi- nality was only an extravagant view of social facls. But it is the common history of in- sanity that it is never recognized till it deals with topics of the meanest familiarity—topics so small and narrow that they can only be contemplated in one way. If a man comes who contemplates them in another way peo- | ple say at once he is mad. But he may con- template the solar system or social science in ten thousand ways and be esteemed by the multitude—not merely not mad, but a wise man of wonderful capacity. If George III. had talked os Kant and Hogel have written, and dealt with the same subjects, he would never have been considered mad, and he might, perhaps, have passed for an original philoso- pher; but he dealt with an awfully familiar phrase. He went down to tne House of Parliament and said:—‘My Lords and Gen- tlemen—and woodcocks cocking up your | tails.” Now, there are never any woodcocks there, and everybody knows it; so he was caught on a plain fact, and was known to be mad. In the same way men are mad tor half a life time on ali the topics out of tho | common way, and are only discovered some | day when they try to wind up a watch witha _ screwdriver. All of Mr. Owen’s vagaries grew | out of the same malady that bas now only reached its more advanced and evident stage. He was not of sound mind when he accepted a lewd damsel of a neighboring town as a pres- ence from another world—far from it; and nobody else who accepted the same fact in that sense was of sound mind, only he has gone over the abyss that it is vot possible to dissemble. Whether the others will follow may depend upon the advice they get as te their physical and mental condition, PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Good current paper, thas Cornell boat. Agnosticism is the Koow Nothingism of the period. | Rev. Dr, Warren, of Chicago, is sojourniug at | the Gtisey House. liow wise it was not to turn Jef® Davis into a martyr with @ rope! Judge W. I. Dimmick, of Pennsylvania, is siay- | ing at the St. James Hotel. | The Duke of Edinbargh plays pieces on a violia | “maae oat of his own head.” | Mr. R. J. Gating, of Martiora, ts among the late | arrivals at the Windsor Hotel. Judge Piatt Potter, of Schenectady, is regis- tered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. | Baron Meidell, of Rassia, is residing tempo- | Tartiy at the Filth Avenue Hotel. | Massachusetts bas a pardouing Governor, whtch | Is # hopeful fact for Jesse Pomeroy. | Professor Ira W. Allen, of Chicago, has taken up nis residence at the Everett House, | Ex-Governor Thomas P. Porter, of Kentucky, | has apartments at the Gilsey House, | The irish inhaoitants of Victoria, Australia, are | | to hoid an O'Connell centenary celebration, ‘Quere is @ fatality about Tilden, Waoen he went | into the water the other day he got wrinzing wet, Who Is tho Adam and who iy the Eye—and who is tho third party in Joaquin Miller's Valiiornia Eden? In virtue of the new tactics in crime tne city burglar is able to “spend his evenings with bis damily. Charles Francts Adams will deliver the address before the Northern Wiscousin Fuir at Osukosh, September 28, The fon, 8. D. Hastings, P. W. G. Templar of America, has been lecturing on “Temperance” ia Victoria, Australia, Onief Justice Wililam B. Richards, of the Court of Queen's Bench of Canada, has arrived at the Westmoreland Hotel. Tne ex-members of’ the New York Seventh regt- | Ment, San Francisco, are taking steps towards the organization ot a club for social purposes. A despatcn received at the War Department | yesterday ‘rom Secretary Belknap anoounces bia | arrival at Salt Lake Oily om Monday. He was to have lett yesterday aiternoon for Ogden, where be would remaia until to-day, aud then start ior Fort Elis. Neal Dow saye:—A man once said to me that We svall never stop rum selilog in Maine; that there will be piaces where It will be sold secretiy, ifmotopenly. To Which 4 replied that whea the law makes it a capital offence, and hangs the man | engaged In it, rum selling will stop.” Why, then, does vot the same penalty stop murder? ‘The eloquent Southern editor is now prepared to announce of Augasts J. Evans’ new novel that “the rhythmic polysyilabies como rolling out npou the strand of literature even as tne green sea beats grand cadences upon the shore covered with the «rifting sands of centuries, pearing upon its bosom pearis of purest ray, fie to bedeck proud Juno’s diadem,’’—S¢. Louls sepub- Ucanm There Is some odd fact behind the Granter-Game | betta challenge and refusal, The quarrel was with Pant de Cassagnac, the noted ducilist, and the challenge was from his father; and people in Paris wonder Whatit ineans, M. agnac, who chal- | lengea Gambetta, sixty-eight years ola, but | Writes that big arm ts still strong enongh to de- | fend bis honor, As Gambetta declines to fight, is pugnacious old gentleman says ho Will use bis byes on him .